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by darksaints 6mo ago
I would gladly see that bet through because that's not zoning, even if its effects are the same as zoning. Subdivision rules are a restrictive covenant (much like how HOAs work). Zoning is not a restrictive covenant, it is by definitio
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by darksaints 6mo ago
If your neighborhood's zoning isn't in your deed, how are you going to claim it was taken from you? Zoning is a restriction on your rights...when they are lifted, you are gaining more tangible rights, not losing them. If anyth
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by darksaints 6mo ago
Correction: zoning had good reasons to exist, but it doesn't anymore. Everything that we used to solve that problem is better solved by environmental laws than it ever was by zoning. It turns out that if you make companies pay for th
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by darksaints 6mo ago
San Diego would be a very popular city at lower prices, but simply put there isn't enough population in the US to even think that demand could grow anywhere close to those levels. It would take a 50 year long gold rush, draining of oth
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by darksaints 6mo ago
Housing price is a function of supply and demand and your argument had nothing to do with price of housing, you were only talking about density and its effect on livability. And it's very clear that people value living in cities that a
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by darksaints 6mo ago
At the density of Kowloon Walled City, the entire population of India could fit within the city limits of San Diego. Nobody is asking for that, silly. We could 1.5x the density of San Diego and still have the livability of Copenhagen. We co
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by darksaints 6mo ago
I'd be willing to bet you every last dollar on the planet that if you read your deed, you will find zero claims to any particular zoning. Zoning is not a transferable property right. It can be changed for any reason at any time.
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by darksaints 6mo ago
TFA shows that it was zoning changes that allowed the influx of housing and lower prices. You can find similar articles across the country everywhere that has had significant relaxation of zoning restrictions, like in Minneapolis, Austin, a
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by darksaints 6mo ago
At the levels of density seen in Paris, San Diego could house 16 million people. That's city proper. The metro area could house 226 million people. You're gonna have to do a lot better job convincing me that 16 million people woul
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by darksaints 6mo ago
Being a homeowner, you get a title to your lot, not your entire neighborhood. You have no legal claim on your neighbor's home. If you want a legal claim on your neighbor's home, join an HOA. Or just buy it.
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by darksaints 6mo ago
Zoning that reduces buildable footprint and/or height artificially increases demand for land. If the only way to build a home is to buy a 9000 sqft lot, then my demand for land is 9000 sqft. If you can build 18 homes on that same lot,
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by darksaints 6mo ago
For the same reason that NIMBYs care so much about urban trees or spotted owls. They don't actually give a shit about them, they just are willing to say or do anything to sabotage the process of increasing housing supply.
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by darksaints 6mo ago
We don't need to know how much. We just need to know the direction, and stop caring so fucking much about rich people going underwater on their home.
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by darksaints 6mo ago
I've been told repeatedly by people who have a vested interest in maintaining high housing prices that supply and demand don't work at all, ever, for any reason, and high prices are no reason to build more housing. How do I reconc
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by darksaints 6mo ago
Okay, now how do I cancel/refund the remaining portion of my pre-paid year subscription? No way in hell I will support a company owned by Elon Musk.
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by darksaints 6mo ago
It's the same motivation as racists: they need some way to feel superior to the people that they despise. If the entire world stopped swearing today, these people would just find something else to use in their supremacist proxy wars.
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by darksaints 6mo ago
Nobody cares, nor should they. Anthropic broke nearly every ToS of every website that they scraped data from. The AI robber barons just want to monopolize intellectual property violations, and I'm gonna cheer on any robin hoods that ta
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by darksaints 6mo ago
They're not inherently offensive. They're vulgar, but that isn't the same thing as offensive. Vulgarity is nothing more than a classist concept anyway. This is just another case of religious extremists making everything in th
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by darksaints 8mo ago
Due process protections also apply in civil law.
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by darksaints 8mo ago
Forgot that the cybertruck was a sales flop and quality joke, and that the Tesla Semi is now the elephant in the room.
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by darksaints 9mo ago
This is absolutely amazing. For those of us programming nerds that want to play with aerodynamics, I can't recommend AeroSandbox enough. While the code is pretty obviously written for people who know their way around aerodynamics and n
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by darksaints 9mo ago
No, felon illegals are supposed to go to prison and serve their sentence before deportation. You know, because they committed felonies. Crossing the border illegally is a misdemeanor and overstaying your visa is a civil violation and not ev
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by darksaints 9mo ago
I understand where you're coming from, and I'll play devil's advocate to the devil's advocate: If generative AI is generating convincingly photorealistic CSAM, what the fuck are they training the models on? And if those
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by darksaints 10mo ago
warning: incoming generational stereotypes The original phrase "The customer is always right" had an important caveat: "... in matters of taste". Somehow boomers managed to forget the caveat and created a culture of trea
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by darksaints 10mo ago
honestly at this point I'm actually surprised that there aren't specialized linux distributions for hosting postgres. There's so many kernel-level and file-system level optimizations that can be done that significantly impact
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by darksaints 10mo ago
Honestly, I don't have much faith in Linux anymore, and it has everything to do with the explosion of the kernel's codebase due to the explosion of cheaper devices running linux and the (admittedly difficult) management issues s
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by darksaints 11mo ago
I've also felt very similar, and adopted Rust for those reasons. Even though I'd still love to have a garbage collected, AOT compiled ML-variant, using OCaml still feels like a step backwards now. OCaml's module system and ge
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by darksaints 11mo ago
I have one of these cars, the last model year before they switched to carplay. The bluetooth implementation is dogshit...randomly speeding up songs, audio skipping, cutting out, etc. Occasionally forgets connections and has to be set up fro
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by darksaints 11mo ago
Are there any promising core designs yet? Multi-core designs? Any promising extensions being standardized? I really want to believe, but I don't think we'll see anything like an M5 chip anytime soon simply because there's so
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by darksaints 11mo ago
I absolutely love minizinc and constraint programming in general, but I have to say that the whole concept of a specialized language for constraint programming really breaks down once you get past the toy problem stage. For example, there i

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